Linoleum-cutting machine.



' No. 769,681. 'PA'TENTED AUG. 30,1904.

' E.J. HBMINGTON.

LINOLEUM CUTTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR..10, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

znlfeizi'or' mi'ne sses faces engage and slightly overlap, as shown.

with is the lower disk cutter 9, journaled Patented August 30, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE. I

EDWARD J.'HEMINGTON, or ALLIANCE, oHio.

LINOLEUM-CUTTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,081, dated August 30,1904.

Application filed March 10, 1904. i

To all whom) it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. HEMINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Linoleum-Cutters, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to'the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is. a top plan view of the cutter, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear end view. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view taken on line i 4 of Fig. 2.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient device with which linoleum may be quickly, easily, and accurately cut in any desired direction without tearing or otherwise injuring the. same.

Referring to the drawings, the frame of the device consists, preferably, of a single metal bar which is bent or forged to forrn'the top arm or stem 2, the uprightback 3, and the under forwardly-turned arm 4:. The extremity of this arm is forked and turned upward, as indicated at 5, and immediately thereabove the top arm 2 is formed with the elongated eye 6.: Journaled within eye 6 on pin 7 is the upper disk cutter 8, and cooperating therewithin fork 5 on pin 10. The spaces within fork 5 and eye 6 are of corresponding width, and the cutters, each of which isbeveled on one side only, are adapted to fit and operate within the-same interchangeably. Each of the cutters is formed on one side with an integral hub projection 11 and on its opposite side with a similar but shorter projection 12, and these projections are of such length that when the cutters are reversely disposed on their respective bearings their unbeveled The back 8 of the frame is reversely curved to form the vertically separated passes or guideways 13 and 14, which operate to receive and separate edges 15 and 15 of the linoleum immediately upon passing from the cutters, and with the several edges thus held separated. the cutting will proceed with greater ease and less friction on the knives than though Serial No. 197,453. (No model.)

readily understood.

Secured to the forward end of stem 2 is handle 2 for drawing the implement forward over the linoleum, and depending from the stem,between the cutters and handle, is pointer 16, by means of which the cutters are accurately held to the line at which the linoleum is to be parted. I

My improved cutter is of simple and inexpensive construction and parts the linoleum with a clean out, there being absolutely no tendency to crack or otherwise disfigure its edges.

While I have here described the improved tool in connection with cutting linoleum and have entitled it a linoleum-cutter, it may be used for cutting oil-cloth and other materials or for any use to which such a tool may be supports and hold the cutters in proper rela tive position.

2. A tool of the character described comprising a frame having alining bearing-spaces of corresponding width, cooperating disk cutferent lengths projecting from the cutters and adapted to bear against the inner faces of said spaces for maintaining the cutters in proper relative position.

3. A tool of the character described comprising a frame having alining bearing-spaces of corresponding width, interchangeable cooperating disk cutters journaled in said spaces, each cutter having hubs on opposite sides of different lengths adapted to bear against the inner faces of said spaces for holding the cutters in proper relative position.

4. A tool of the character described comprising a frame having top and bottom portions and a connecting back portion, the back portion having reversely-disposed lateral inters journaled in said spaces, and hubs of dif-v the edges remain in the same plane, as will be 5 O dentations, and cooperating disk cutters journaled in the top and bottom portions of the frame.

5. A tool of the character described comprising a frame having top and bottom portions and a connecting back portion, the top portion being formed With an eye, a fork carried by the bottom portion, and cooperating 'disk cutters journaled in said eye and fork.

vertically-separated passes for the purpose described, and cooperating disk cutters carried by the top and bottom portions of the frame.

8. A tool of the character described comprising a frame formed of a single bar bent to form the top portion 2, the reversely-cnrved back portion 3 and the forward1y-disposed under portion 4:, an upright fork carried by the said under portion, the top portion 2 being formed With an eye in the plane of said fork, and cooperating disk cutters journaled in said. eye and fork.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWARD J. HElYIlNG-TITON.

Witnesses:

EDWIN \V. DIEHL, J NO. L. MoOoNNELL. 

